Showing posts with label Newton Daily News. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Newton Daily News. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

¿Mi momento de fama?

"If you stick around long enough, they'll take your picture!" said my mom, laughing, as we looked at the newspaper yesterday . . .

Hehe, I don't know about other clubs, but from what I've gathered at my local Rotary club, we usually have two or three "Rotary Students of the Month" who are selected from the high school as high achieving students. They are recogninzed at our Rotary Club, attend meetings for the month, and give a small speech at the last meeting of the month. In addition, they get to have their picture in the Newton Daily News.

Well, I was not a Rotary Student of the Month. "Then why are you explaining all this?" you may ask. Actually, I just happened to come to the weekly Rotary meeting the week that March's students of the month were photographed for the NDN.  So when I was asked to join in the photo, I agreed hapilly!



From left to right: Min Hua (she's an exchange student from Taiwan!),  Newton Rotary President Tom Mott, Dylan, Jenna, and me, "the Rotary exchange student to Spain."

If you would like to read the complete article "Rotary Students of the Month"click here! I find it a little funny actually; the three students of the month . . . then me :) Nevertheless, I enjoyed this small but sure moment of "fama."

Sunday, February 20, 2011

Odd Ends and Bits

So as it turns out, I DID forget to tell you a few things on last Sunday's post. Better late then never, right? So on the day of my interview (exactly one week ago), Paul Kalainoff (District 6000 Outbound Coordinator) told me that I should know the city I'll be living in in about 2-3 weeks. So now, I should know in about 1-2 weeks! YAY!! I'm so excited :D Apparently, the last two kids from our district who went to Spain lived in MADRID!! I told my Spanish teacher, Señora Kies, about everything, and she's very excited! She lived in a small town in Spain for a semester in college, and although she says SHE wouldn't want to live in the city, I really hope I end up in a coastal city like Barcelona, but if not, in Madrid :)

Also, I went to Quiznos this past week to apply for a job (my Grandma has good connections there). However, they aren't hiring :'( They still took my application, but it was pretty disappointing. So, I am currently looking for a job, because I want to earn some extra money for my exchange. If you think you could help me out, let me know!! haha :) I have a bunch of applications saved in My Favorites to fill out and submit around town; hopefully I can get that done in the next week.

Also this week, my driver's license came in the mail! Now, I don't have to carry around that silly piece of paper for it. I'm really going to miss driving while in Spain!! (It's one of Rotary Rules they call the 4 D's - No: Driving, serious Dating, Drinking (to the point of becoming drunk), and Drugs).

Track and Field starts this Tuesday, but for the first time in four years, I won't be running this season. Because of my surgery, I'm WAY behind on training, and with wanting to work this spring, I just think it'd be best not to do Track. It's especially sad because my best friend Jenn decided to try out track for the first time this year, and we're not going to be able to share that experience together :( However, I'm definitely planning on cheering her on at a few meets c:

Finally: newspaper. Some of you may know that I'm on the staff of the Cardinal Chronicle (school newspaper). My goal was to be editor-in-chief my senior year, if not junior year. With my exchange, I'm afraid that won't be possible :'( Although, I am hoping to be sending little pieces of writing to Ms. Calvin (Newspaper teacher) for the publications website, or possibly even the Cardinal Chronicle next year. When I talked to her about everything, she was really disappointed that I'd be gone, but said that of course she'd appreciate some writing while I'm overseas.

If I don't send Ms. Calvin writings - or even if I do - I think it'd be cool to send the Newton Daily News some stuff. I wonder if they'd publish it?? Hmm... I think I'll talk to them about that :)

I hope you've enjoyed this post of odd ends and bits! Until later, adiós!

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Newton Daily News - Rotary Club celebrates 90 years of missions, giving

My mom emailed me this article today and I thought it was interesting. It was just published today, and I thought you would all enjoy it :) My Rotary Club is celebrating 90 years! Check it out at the following link:

http://www.newtondailynews.com/articles/2011/02/16/r_xooi96zsmcnicmb47uba/index.xml

Enjoy!